Aelin
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AY-lin
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,855 for girls
- Style
- New arrival
Aelin is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 1,855th for girls in the US (107 babies).
What does Aelin mean?
Modern: invented name from fantasy fiction
Aelin Galathynius is the heroine of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass fantasy novels.
Is Aelin a girl's or a boy's name?
Aelin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 107 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aelin in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Aelin, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 4 girls.
In 2025, 104 girls in the UK were given Aelin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #425, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Aylin 100
- Aelin 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Aelin in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
How popular is Aelin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,855th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 107 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 177% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 107 girls in the US were named Aelin, making it the 1,855th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. It first appears in the records in 2016.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 8 years. 2025 had the most girls named Aelin of any year since it first appeared, in 2016.
Half of all the girls named Aelin in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,057 girls in the US were given Aelin or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #319, up from #1,855 for this spelling alone.
Aelin in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,855 |
| 2024 | 79 | #2,327 |
| 2023 | 47 | #3,386 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,593 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,677 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,039 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
Names like Aelin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aoibheann, Caitlin, Teagan, Eireann, Ceylin, Raegan, Raelynn, Eden, Caoimhe, Keira, Caragh, Roisin
Other spellings of Aelin
Names related to Aelin
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aelin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aelin, updated 20 October 2026.